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Rockets Redglare

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1949-05-08

Day of Death

2001-05-28

Place of Birth

Unknown

Rockets Redglare

Biography

Rockets Redglare (May 8, 1949 – May 28, 2001) was an American character actor and stand-up comedian.  As well as his career as an entertainer, he worked as a roadie for a band called The Hassles (with a young Billy Joel), and as a bodyguard and drug supplier to punk rock bassist Sid Vicious and artist-musician Jean Michel Basquiat.

Filmography (36)

⭐ 5.0 Role: Self - Actor (archive footage)

Who Killed Nancy?

2009
⭐ 5.6 Role: Self

Chelsea on the Rocks

2008
⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Rockets Redglare!

2003
⭐ 6.3 Role: Big Rand

Animal Factory

2000
⭐ 8.0 Role: Unknown

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

1999
⭐ 4.5 Role: Ralph

Louis & Frank

1998
⭐ 6.3 Role: Perfomance Priest

Fall

1997
⭐ 9.0 Role: Unknown

Dreamland

1997
⭐ 6.6 Role: Rockets

Basquiat

1996
⭐ 6.9 Role: Stan

Trees Lounge

1996
⭐ 4.7 Role: Frank

What About Me

1993
⭐ 6.7 Role: Guy

In the Soup

1992
⭐ 5.9 Role: Uncle Howard

Little Noises

1992
No Image
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Craps

1991
⭐ 9.0 Role: The Factor

Force of Circumstance

1990